Pope Francis Quotes

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

When I say that Kansas all rolls as one unit, they all roll as one unit. Like, everyone. They never leave anybody out.

We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.

Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.

End of the day, when you do something, you have to do something where you bring people together. You can't do something where you separate people.

We need to focus on being one Baltimore.

We're a tight-knit city in Birmingham. We have so much around us that brings the people together, no matter who you are or your background.

Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

No one gets left behind, remember?

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.